Tarabas. Guest on this earth

The novel "Tarabas", first translated into Russian, tells the story of the biblical prodigal son in his own way, which the writer transferred during the years after the First World War. Its main topic is sin and atonement.
The hero of the novel, an officer of the Russian army, during the First World War fought with rapture, sparing neither the enemy nor the peaceful population. However, after another vile act in his life, a turning point comes, he leaves a military affair and leaves to wander, hoping to get forgiveness from people who have caused evil.
Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) is among the most significant masters of literature of the twentieth century.
After the First World War, J. Roth lived in Germany, was a journalist. His first novels" Hotel "Savoy", "rebellion", "Tsipper and his father" brought him fame. Especially popular to this day remains the novel "march of Radetsky". The mouth despised fascism, constantly spoke in a press against the Nazis, and in 1933 he had to leave Germany. The writer died in Paris